This is quite an experimentation image.

First of all this is the first image I have this year with snow in it. Let alone it being in autumn so it's probably the earliest ive seen snow for a while.

Anyway,
The image is a full tilt - 3 image portrait-horizontal shift. This shifting technique is the same used in my panoramic images but this time with the camera in the portrait position. I was using a very shallow depth of field with the lens only being set to f/4.

Couple this small depth of field with full tilt on my lens gives me a nice wedge shaped 70 degree plane of focus, this enables me to focus close to the camera yet the plane of focus spreads out along the fallen tree into the ferns yet keeping the ground and tops of trees out of focus. The top of the photo is suffering from a little lens distortion, but that adds to the effect. This is because of using the full extent of the tilt-shift lens image circle and using full tilt.

For more information about this technique please visit my most recent(but old) journal about tilt and shift lenses.

This has not be photoshoped apart from converting in raws and a small amount of use of shadow/highlight to give me a little more detail in the wet tree trunks.

Comments welcome!